Time lapse video week, Day 3: Dust in the wind...

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Clouds usually get all the glory in time lapse videos, but how about some dust?

For Day 3 of our time lapse video week in the blog, we feature Scott Wood now lives in Olympia but was down in Arizona while in the Air Force when a big dust storm struck. He had his camera rolling and snapped this video of the approaching dust cloud:

(Here is another shot of same storm, by Mike Oblinski:)

Wood also got this great desert sunset from the mountains outside Phoenix:

He's now back in the Northwest, and working on local time lapse projects, including this one of Hood Canal, as seen from the south observation point on Mt. Walker:

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Walk around the Puget Sound area and you'll notice trees starting to bloom and perhaps the whirr of a lawn mower or two, even though winter still had a solid 3-4 weeks left in its reign.

Seattle finished up February as the warmest on record, on the heels of a very warm January (and record-warm December) as well, and the early spring-time weather has in tandem brought out the first signs of spring.

In what will go down as one of the best -- or worst -- winters on record, depending on what you want out of a Seattle winter, now there will be some meteorological trophies to go along with the memories.

Seattle has set its record for all-time warmest February since official measurements began at Sea-Tac Airport. The average temperature (high temperature plus low temperature, divided by two) was 48.8 degrees narrowly edging 1977's record at 48.7. (And I mean narrowly. Had Saturday just been one degree cooler, it would have been a tied record instead.)